My Dear Friends:
I'm happy to share with you this exciting news: NeverEnding Story contributor
Sandip Chauhan just edited and published a trilingual haiku anthology,
Beyond the Fields (Aesthetics Publications, 2017). It's a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku divided into two parts: Part One, "Where Cotton Blooms," features the haiku by Punjabi haiku poets and Part Two, "The Hues of Sunset," is a sampling of some of the best contemporary English language haiku, offered as an introduction to the Punjabi audience.
Sandip Chauhan holds a PhD in Punjabi Literature from Punjabi University in Patiala, India. She writes mainly in Punjabi and English. Publications include two haiku anthologies: In One Breath - a Haiku moment , 2013 and Kokil Anb Suhavi Bole /ਕੋਕਿਲ ਅੰਬਿ ਸੁਹਾਵੀ ਬੋਲੇ , 2014, where haiku and its aesthetics are introduced in Punjabi for the first time.
Selected Haiku
autumn leaves --
in grandma's tea set
a broken cup
Jaspreet Parhar
autumn moon ...
smoke from the clay pot
clings to my shawl
Roopinder Kaur Sidhu
winter drizzle --
another loose thread
in mom's sweater
Harvinder Dhaliwal
moonbow ...
in a grain of wheat
a farmer's song
Sandip Chauhan
first cold morning
the smell of mothballs
on her jersey
Patricia Prime
specks of dust
in the winter moonlight
a lines of migrants
Chen-ou Liu
another snowstorm
a child braids her doll's hair
over and over
Roberta Berry
fading light ...
pink-footed geese wade
into the sun
Claire Everett
cracked soil ...
a day laborer bent
over his shadow
Sasa Vazic
between beats
on the cardiogram --
patter of rain
Carl Seguiban
nights of stars
all along the precipice
goat bells ring
an'ya
winter quilt --
threads of conversation
between us
Anne Curran
grandma's funeral --
I stumble over the roots
of an old oak tree
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu
